Top Vaudeville Songs
Rank All Time Artist Song Subgenre(s) Other Genre(s) Year
1
430
 Bessie Smith St. Louis Blues Vaudeville Blues 1925
2
1059
 Al Jolson Swanee 1920
3
1092
 Mamie Smith Crazy Blues Vaudeville Blues 1920
4
1169
 Ma Rainey See See Rider Blues Vaudeville Blues 1925
5
1746
 Sophie Tucker Some of These Days 1911
6
1764
 Bessie Smith Downhearted Blues Vaudeville Blues Piano Blues 1923
7
1840
 Bessie Smith Empty Bed Blues Vaudeville Blues Piano Blues 1928
8
2002
 Eddie Cantor Makin' Whoopee 1929
9
2108
 Nina Simone Mississippi Goddam Vaudeville Blues Soul Jazz, Vocal Jazz 1964
10
2768
 Al Jolson My Mammy Traditional Pop 1928
11
3641
 The Haydn Quartet Take Me Out to the Ball Game Barbershop 1908
12
3776
 The Peerless Quartet Let Me Call You Sweetheart Vocal Group 1911
13
4740
 Nora Bayes Over There 1917
14
4831
 Bertha "Chippie" Hill Trouble in Mind Vaudeville Blues 1926
15
5246
 Bessie Smith Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out Vaudeville Blues Vocal Jazz 1929
16
5408
 Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers Lovesick Blues Vaudeville Blues Vocal Jazz 1928
17
5763
 The Beatles Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! Art Pop, Psychedelic Pop 1967
18
6003
 Al Jolson Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody Traditional Pop 1918
19
6118
 Bessie Smith Back-Water Blues Vaudeville Blues 1927
20
6180
 Chauncey Olcott When Irish Eyes Are Smiling 1913
21
6223
 Bessie Smith T Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do Vaudeville Blues Piano Blues 1923
22
6511
 Billy Murray You're a Grand Old Rag 1906
23
7223
 Frank Stanley Auld Lang Syne 1907
24
7374
 Clarence Williams' Blue Five Wild Cat Blues Vaudeville Blues Jazz 1923
25
7541
 Bessie Smith Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl Vaudeville Blues Piano Blues 1931
26
8441
 Edward Meeker Take Me Out to the Ball Game 1908
27
9280
 Ma Rainey & Her Tub Jug Washboard Band Prove It on Me Blues Vaudeville Blues Jug Band 1928
28
9366
 Eddie Cantor Yes! We Have No Bananas 1922
29
9447
 Harry MacDonough & Alice Green They Didn't Believe Me 1915
30
9753
 Horace Heidt and His Brigadiers Ti-Pi-Tin Big Band 1938

Songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 10000:
Trixie Smith My Man Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll) Vaudeville Blues 1922
Bessie Smith Gimmie a Pigfoot Vaudeville Blues Vocal Jazz 1934
Billy Murray Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis 1904
Ada Jones & Billy Murray Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine 1908
Gene Greene King of the Bungaloos Traditional Pop 1911
Bessie Smith Careless Love Blues Vaudeville Blues 1925
Bessie Smith Alexander's Ragtime Band Vaudeville Blues 1927
Bessie Smith Young Woman's Blues Vaudeville Blues Vocal Jazz 1927
Eddie Cantor If You Knew Susie (Like I Know Susie) 1925
Lil Green Why Don't You Do Right? Vaudeville Blues Vocal Jazz 1941
Randy Newman Lonely at the Top Music Hall, Singer/Songwriter 1972
Lou Reed New York Telephone Conversation Novelty, Novelty Piano, Singer/Songwriter 1972